eval command not installed

[SteveFowkes]

Hi
wonder if anyone can help.......

I have Redhat ES4 installed and am trying to run the following commands

set CMD="ksh - eval $Pfile -csh"

$CMD

$Pfile is a script

and it get the error

ksh: eval: No such file or directory

also, there are no man pages for eval

[Rubberman]

eval is a bash shell builtin command. It doesn't exist in ksh. You can create your own version for ksh. Here is the documentation for eval from the bash man page:

       eval [arg ...]
              The args are read and concatenated together into a  single  command.   This
              command  is  then  read  and  executed by the shell, and its exit status is
              returned as the value of eval.  If there are no args, or  only  null  argu-
              ments, eval returns 0.

[SteveFowkes]

Thanks for the reply

So using eval , how do I run the script $Pfile in linux ?

[SteveFowkes]

Just for further clarification the line;

set CMD="ksh - eval $Pfile -csh"

appears in a script which is running in csh.

If it is a bash command what do I need (bash wise) to invoke it ?)

thanks for your help !